Cage & Mirror Publishing

Books by Jeremy McEntire

The same structural thinking applied across different domains.

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The Cage and the Mirror

How to Make Rigid Organizations Resilient Again

Organizations face an inescapable problem: the very formalization that enables coordination at scale creates blind spots that well-meaning people cannot perceive from inside. This book explains the physics and what you can do about it.

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Beyond Code

Context, Constraints, and the New Craft of Software

Software engineering is not code. It is the discipline of building systems under constraints that the code cannot express. This book examines what changes when you stop treating programming as the point.

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Organizational Physics

Structural Forces of Influence

Organizations are physical systems. They have mass, inertia, friction, and momentum. This book maps the structural forces that determine why some organizations move and others don't—regardless of the talent inside them.

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Privacy

The Ephemeral Internet

The web was not designed for permanence. This book examines the cryptographic and architectural foundations of a privacy-preserving internet — anonymous identity, blind databases, and systems designed to forget.

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Uncommon Leadership

A Collected Anthology of Unfalsifiable Truisms

A satirical examination of leadership literature. Every truism in this collection is true. None of them are useful. The gap between truth and utility is the subject.

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City of Mercy

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Introduction to Applied Synthesis

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Foundations of Integrative Reasoning — Third Edition

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Cage & Mirror Publishing

Cage & Mirror Publishing produces work at the intersection of organizational theory, systems thinking, and practical leadership. All titles are available through major retailers and direct from the publisher.